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Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine

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This book pulls together a lot of information, but in my opinion it is written and organized very very poorly. I have over 10 yrs of experience in in the healthcare industry and came across this book during a grad level course in CEA.

Long, boring, convoluted sentences fill the pages of this book. It took about 3 times more time and effort to get through a page in this book compared to a page in respected journals like JAMA, NEJM, BMJ etc.

If you have lots of time and are doing research in this field - go for it. Alternatively if you want to quickly determine what CEA is about, I would recommend reading Peter Muennig and Kamran Khan "Designing and Conducting Cost-Effectiveness Analyses in Medicine and Health Care".

this is a comprehensive book covering all aspects of cost effectiveness analysis..for someone without an economics background its a little difficult to grasp the concepts..but i would highly recommend it for anyone who is a beginner in this field

This book is completely boring to read. It drones on. BUT that being said, it is foundational to a lot of the current cost effective analysis today and is cited a bit. It helps to read Drummond's "Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes" (2005). This is a much better and more user friendly book with very similar material. It is THE book for the health economics student. I think I will appreciate Gold in a few years when I get further into the area. But right now, as a first year Master's student, its just too boring to force myself to go through, especially when its not required reading.

Recently, there is less book to approach the cost-effectiveness point in medicine . I think this book can give us the new concepts of this research.